How often is this going to be reposted?
Every day, there's a new "today's 100,000".
Today's 10,000 - https://xkcd.com/1053/
We can be pedantic...this is HN... :-)
Beej's Guide to C Programming
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Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming
#22How often is this going to be reposted?
Why do you ask? Does it bother you or you want to signal how astute about HN you are?
Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming
#23How often is this going to be reposted?
My first time seeing it. Not sure why it bothers you so much.
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#24Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming
#25My past undergraduate self will always be thankful to Beej for the network socket programming guide.
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Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming
#26See also Wikibooks' "C Programming": https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming
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#27For those who might not be familiar with Beej, this is not his first or only guide. They're all excellent. There's a link near the top of the page: "Click here for other Guides" Also, see previous posts here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beej.us
Beej's Guide to Network Programming was how I fumbled my way into socket programming AND C. I can't remember if I first encountered it in the late 90's or early 2000's. It's funny to think about that world now. Unless you had a shell account or ran Linux or some sort of Unix you had to _pay_ (or... not pay) to get access to a C compiler. If you were lucky you'd get access to some FTP servers via IRC that might have s…
>Unless you had a shell account or ran Linux or some sort of Unix you had to _pay_ (or... not pay) to get access to a C compiler.
That was actually how I got my introduction to nix. I was taking a c++ class in highschool, and I was mad that I couldn't compile my homework without paying for borland. Someone pointed me to g++, and I actually got a shell account with the university of colorado (it's wild to me they would give those away for free!). I kept pestering the admins about installing this or that, and they told me 'hey kid, why don't you install linux on your own* machine and then you can install whatever you like.
So I went and installed redhat on an old computer. Free compilers for basically every language in existence, and an entire OS worth of source code, heaven!
The rest as they say, is history.
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#28Are there any modern c tutorials that teach and guide the learner through practical programs. For instance a real world backend service ?
I’ve been learning with beej’s guide and exercism.il for the last few weeks and it’s very effective paired with the (free!) mentoring there and asking random questions on libera.chat as well.
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#29Re: Beej's Guide to C Programming
#30This was discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34946811
Yup - almost exactly the same case as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343696 - we put it in the second-chance pool without realizing it was a dupe. Sorry!